Interface Cultures@Ars Electronica 2025 - Post-Human Resources

Exhibition from September 3rd to 7th 2025 Linzer Hauptplatz, University of Arts Linz, splace at Hauptplatz

Twenty Years at the Edge of Interaction

What happens when technology is no longer an isolated tool for specific tasks, but embedded in a complex web of interrelationships? At Interface Cultures, we have spent over two decades exploring this evolving liaison as an artistic field—asking how we communicate with technology, not merely through it. In a world where digital interfaces shape our emotions, memories, and desires, excellence in media art demands more than technical skill; it calls for a critical sensitivity to emerging systems and the frictions that surface within our entanglement with them.

Founded at the University of Arts Linz, Interface Cultures has grown into a vibrant community of artists, researchers, and educators committed to redefining the boundaries of media art. For more than 20 years, we have brought experimental works to the Ars Electronica Festival, contributing to an ongoing global discourse on technology, art, and society from the perspective of younger generations.

This year’s exhibition, Post-Human Resources, arises from a moment of saturation—where every device demands our attention and every interface mirrors a culture of dopamine, urgency, and algorithmic control. We ask: what new narratives can resist this noise? How can we create spaces for care, attention, and reflection within systems designed for speed? Post-Human Resources is not just an exhibition—it is a space for reconfiguration. A collective gesture by a generation of artists attuned to the pulse of the present, offering subtle, imaginative, and resistant responses to the challenges of our mediated lives.

Artists:
Ahmad Aiub, Ahmed Jamal, Alessia Fallica & Martina Pizzigoni (a.k.a MAalex), Alireza Khosroabadi, Andrea Corradi, Bilge Nefise Yardimci, Camilla Scholz, Carmen Daniela Cordoba, Carolina Sofia Bischof, Cecilia Bojanić (Confirm Humanity), Christine Haupt, Emma Silvana Tripaldi, Flavia Luna Somarriba, Frieda Emmrich, Ghazal Hosseini, Guiliano Alzerreca (Alzur), Hanif Haghtalab, Hani Elias, Hassan Wakaf, Ling Hsuan Hsu, Lilly Marie Stelzer, Lucia Claus, Mehmet Çolak, Patrick Ortiz, Saumil Bhandari, Sofia Talanti, Tamara Bijelić, Till Schönwetter, Tsu-Wei Lu, Volkan Dinçer, Yuseung Lee, Yutong Zhang, Zixin Mou

Department Interface Cultures:
Manuela Naveau, Laurent Mignonneau, Michaela Ortner, Farbicio Lamoncha, Alexander Wöran, Gudrun Oberndorfer

Production Team:
Production Coordination: Mehmet Çolak
Production Assistant: Bilge Yardimci
Graphic Design: Tamara Bijelić
Video-Documentation: Emma Tripaldi
Photo-Documentation: Yutong Zhang
PR / Social Media: Camilla Scholz
Proofreading: Kevan Croton

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